Webelos Scouts that earn the Mathematics Belt Loop while
a Webelos Scout
also satisfy requirement 7 for the
Scholar Activity Badge or
requirement 10 or the Engineer
Activity Badge (but not both).

Requirements

Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a
family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with
their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.

Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

Do five activities within your home or school that require the use of
mathematics. Explain to your den how you used everyday math.

Keep track of the money you earn and spend for three weeks.

Measure five items using both metric and non-metric measures. Find out
about the history of the metric system of measurement.

Academics
Pin

Earn the
Mathematics belt loop, and
complete
five (one from each of the five areas below) of the following
requirements:

Geometry is related to measurement but also deals
with objects and positions in space.

Many objects can be recognized by their distinctive shapes:
a tree, a piece of broccoli, a violin. Collect 12 items that can
be recognized, classified, and labeled by their distinctive shape
or outline.

Select a single shape or figure. Observe the world around you
for at least a week and keep a record of where you see this shape
or figure and how it is used.

Study geometry in architecture by exploring your neighborhood
or community. Look at different types of buildings-houses, churches,
businesses, etc.-and create a presentation (a set of photographs,
a collage of pictures from newspapers and magazines, a model) that
you can share with your den or pack to show what you have seen and
learned about shapes in architecture.

Conduct an opinion survey through which you collect data to
answer a question, and then show your results with a chart or graph.
For instance: What is the favorite food of the Cub Scouts in your
pack (chart how many like pizza, how many like hamburgers, etc.).

Study a city newspaper to find as many examples as you can of
statistical information.

Learn to use a computer spreadsheet.

Probability helps us know the chance or likelihood
of something happening.

Explain to your den how a meteorologist or insurance company
(or someone else) might use the mathematics of probability to predict
what might happen in the future (i.e., the chance that it might
rain, or the chance that someone might be in a car accident).

Conduct and keep a record of a coin toss probability experiment.

Guess the probability of your sneaker landing on its bottom,
top, or side, and then flip it 100 times to find out which way it
lands. Use this probability to predict how a friend's sneaker will
land.

Measuring is using a unit to express how long or
how big something is, or how much of it there is.

Interview four adults in different occupations to see how they
use measurement in their jobs.

Measure how tall someone is. Have them measure you.

Measure how you use your time by keeping a diary or log of what
you do for a week. Then make a chart or graph to display how you
spend your time.

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